It will never be possible
for local authorities to protect children from abuse until their child
protection polices are evidence based but there is no legislation or
regulations which specifically requires local authorities to collect
& hold information on child abuse perpetrators or for them to use
that information to formulate their child protection policies. Nor is
this information available for Government to use that information to
formulate their child protection policies.

I refer to your request for
information received on 30/12/2013. Please see the information below
in response to your request: -

Please will you kindly tell
me what the (a) gender and (b) familial relationship was to the child
victim of offenders in substantiated child abuse cases in the area which
you have a duty to protect children from abuse for the last full year
which figures are available, broken down by (i) physical abuse, (ii)
emotional abuse, (iii) sexual abuse and (iv) cases of neglect.

In accordance with the provisions
defined under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we are
not obliged to comply with your request as the process of identifying,
locating, retrieving and, where appropriate, extracting the information
would exceed the 'appropriate limit' as defined by the Freedom of Information
and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

To process your request and
to identify the detailed information relevant to the gender and familial
relationship of offenders, including the type of abuse sustained for
the last year would take in excess of 18 hours. With 233 new child protection
plans last year, to extract and identify, then collate the relevant
information from every record, with a minimum of 10 minutes per record
to review the file for the information held, would take at least 38
hours to produce. You may therefore wish to revise the scope of your
request in order to try and bring it within the cost limit.

I hope this information meets
your needs. If you do not understand the information provided or wish
to discuss anything further, please feel free to contact me and I, or
another member of the team, will be able to assist you.